Tatman v. Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Injunction Bill. The bill in this cause was filed by Blema B. Jones, a minor, by her next friend, Alexander Jones, to restrain the pleading of a release by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company in a suit at law for damages as a result of injuries sustained by the complainant by the explosion of powder in transpor cation over the company’s railroad.
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Injunction Bill. The bill in this cause was filed by Blema B. Jones, a minor, by her next friend, Alexander Jones, to restrain the pleading of a release by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company in a suit at law for damages as a result of injuries sustained by the complainant by the explosion of powder in transpor cation over the company’s railroad. Upon the complainanfc’s'arrival at twenty-one years of age, upon petition, she was permitted to prosecute this cause in her own name and right, she having married one Tatman since the filing of the bill. The matter was heard…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor:
This was a bill to enjoin a defendant in a suit at law from pleading a release. On December 2, 1903, Blema B. Jones and her mother, Addie M. Jones, were injured at Greenwood by an explosion of powder being transported in a car by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company. At the February term,' A. D. 1904, of the Superior Court óf New Castle County, suit was brought by the complainant, then a minor, by her next friend, against the company for damages for her injuries so received. After the declararation had been filed in that suit, the plaintiff therein, by…
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